Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

To those of you singing Bon Jovi right now–yeah, I’m not sorry. Because we are! Last night’s dance dress rehearsal is fully behind us, and since my 17-year-old’s school dance performance was also last night (necessitating driving back and forth multiple times at a truly unfortunate time of day), we’re technically more than halfway. Hallelujah!

(Incidentally, watching my 17-year-old tango was a pleasure. Being present while she put stage makeup on her dance partner in the car beforehand was equal parts hilarious and terrifying–especially when she was brandishing the eyelash curler at him in a moving car (!).)

In the meantime, this morning being the calm before the storm, my second load of wash is in the washing machine, and I’m hoping to make devilled eggs after this post is done. And did I sit and finish a graphic novel this morning mainly so I would have an easy review to write on a day with more-stress-than-usual to look forward to?

Maybe? (By which I mean heck, yeah!)

Anyway. I did finish All Is Nat Lost this morning (in between laundry loads), and my 9-year-old especially is going to be thrilled at my diligence. (Or negligence. Depending on how we’re looking at it.) And it was cute. Having been on an overnight school trip or three myself–band trips, to be fair, and more than one night was involved–that included sightseeing in a big, historically rich city, Nat’s overnight school trip to Philadelphia invoked a decent amount of nostalgia for me. And while the book’s resolutions of friend disagreements and issues read a bit like role play supervised by a psychologist, I find I’m okay with that kind of modeling going on in a book that scores of pre-tween, tween, and teen girls are going to read. The ending is happily satisfying (no permanent harm done), and I’m pleased to be passing this one on to my girlies.

Now. Wish us luck for tonight’s recital, as well as the piano lesson, school decorating, and fitting in of exercise that needs to happen beforehand!